Eric Brandom

I always go to sea as a sailor

ketchup on hotdog is fine

Andrew Wyeth, 'Breakup', 1994, tempera on panel

A person can feel that they're just filling in the gaps for a long time. Even grad school just makes you more aware of all the gaps.

Since getting a dachshund, the word "weiner" has become a part of my everyday life in a way that it really was not before.

It's honestly absurd to think that most 20 year olds have any idea what it is that they want to think about for the next 20 years.

Yessssssss

Spend so much time thinking about the things I almost learned as an undergraduate.

“And the masters of the slave-land shall tremble at that sign,

When it points its finger Southward along the Puritan line

Can the craft of State avail them? Can a Christless church withstand,

In the van of Freedom's onset, the coming of that hand?”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

This is called being an adult

Albrecht Durer, the male bathers. A woodcut of some nude men, in a sort of bath. Six figures at least.

A sort of mysterious image that I would like to understand better. www.artic.edu/artworks/439...

Daguerreotype image of the hand of fishing boat captain and slavery abolitionist Jonathan Walker showing the “SS” (for “Slave Stealer”) that the US Govt branded on his palm after he tried in 1844 to help runaway slaves in Florida find freedom in the West Indies (Massachusetts Historical Society) 🗃

kate bush running past sisyphus

Desktops should last for a century. I should be able to play the same version of desktop FreeCell that Freud played on his home PC on the weekends.

gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/060...

Their faces were compact as a cat's muzzle, their lips full, but subtle at the corners. Their ears, objects of personal pride and of sexual admiration, were extremely variable both in individuals and races. These surprising organs, which would have seemed merely ludicrous to the First Men, were expressive both of temperament and passing mood. They were immense, delicately involuted, of a silken texture, and very mobile. They gave an almost bat-like character to the otherwise somewhat feline heads

"Their ears, objects of personal pride and of sexual admiration, were extremely variable both in individuals and races. These surprising organs...were immense, delicately involuted, of a silken texture, and very mobile."

Demoralizing all around

It was bad!

Of the fascism debate's many sins, maybe the worst is how it drained the life out of political questions and substituted them with dreary, pointless ontological debates on how to classify and label things.

Less than 3 months ago, Vox Media was celebrating Eater for having nabbed 6 nominations at the James Beard Media Awards!

Ashok Selvam received the 2025 Local Voice Award for his work at Eater Chicago. He was laid off today.

A future just, green and free, under a tree named Karl Marx | Aeon Ideas Under a tree named Karl Marx: a moment from California’s radical past that gives a glimpse of a future just, green and free

Such a cool story—I have a whole chapter in my book about it, but @aeon.co published a much shorter (and free!) version a while back: aeon.co/ideas/a-futu...

Ahhhhh, this is great, thank you. So it was after all already named for Sherman Marx is more of an interregnum. And National Park as anti-radical measure is...painful but yeah.

what if we tried just a new-ish materialism

"Highly sophisticated people, some of them. Practically raised on the Linz Symphony and the novels of Colette."

some of them, almost certainly, yes

seems to be confirmed here! www.nps.gov/places/000/g...

There it is!

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[Hans Blumenberg arches his eyebrow and smiles]

I have no reason to believe that Rexroth is wrong, and I remember liking his poems in college, but I would start by trying to get independent confirmation of some of these facts.